The History, Society and Culture faculty members are active in their professions and present papers, attend conferences, conduct research, and serve in professional organizations in their field.
Patrick D. Anderson
Professor, Humanities
Gibney Distinguished Professor
(603) 526-3639 | panderso@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 1977. A.B., from University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Professor Anderson teaches courses in American studies, American literature, Native American culture and film.
He is especially interested in exploring the interdisciplinary links between literature and the arts, and offers several courses to support the English and Media Studies Majors and American Studies minor, including The West in American Culture, The American Dream in Literature and Film, Native American Literature, American Film and Literary Modernism.
The author of a book and numerous published articles on film, Professor Anderson lectures frequently throughout the state and presents radio film reviews on a regular basis. He recently completed a sabbatical leave which took him to Belize, Mexico and Peru where he studied the links between ancient traditions and contemporary cultures of the Maya and Inca people. | faculty profile
Eric Boyer
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences and Education
(603) 526-3432 | eboyer@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 2008. Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Formerly served as a lecturer at the University of Minnesota and as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Saint Thomas University. | faculty profile
Dexter Burley
Scholar in Residence, Social Sciences and Education
(603) 526-3988 | dburley@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 2008. Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire. He has previously served as the executive director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Geriatric Medicine Unit and as a faculty member at Harvard University.
Joseph C. Carroll
Professor, Social Sciences and Education
M. Roy London Endowed Chair
(603) 526-3654 | jcarroll@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 1977. B.A. from Holy Cross College; M.A., Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire. Areas of teaching include sociology of race and ethnic relationships, social problems, domestic violence and the sociology of the family. Professor Carroll's research interests include studies of family dynamics and ethnic conflict. He has recently completed a sabbatical research project that focused on the ethnic turnover of neighborhoods in Lawrence, Mass. over the course of the 20th century. In the fall of 2002, he was awarded the M. Roy London Endowed Chair for Community and Environmental Studies. He is a former Fulbright scholar to Eastern Europe and has taught in Israel. | faculty profile
Hilary P. Cleveland
Adjunct Associate Professor, Social Sciences and Education
hcleveland@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 1955. B.A. from Vassar College; Lic-es-Pol., Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internacionales. Professor Cleveland teaches courses in the areas of comparative government, the U.S. Constitution, the American presidency, and American national government.
The wife of former New Hampshire Congressman James Cleveland, Professor Cleveland has served on the International U.S.-Canada Joint Commission, was president of the New Hampshire Historical Society, and director of the New Hampshire Commission on the Arts.
Kathleen P. Farrell
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences and Education
(603) 526-3660 | kfarrell@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined the faculty in 2009. Honors B.A. in sociology from Trinity College; M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Syracuse University. Professor Farrell's primary research and teaching interests include gender and sexualities, with an emphasis on inequality studies. In her courses, Professor Farrell focuses on the interdisciplinary and practical implications of sociology. | faculty profile
Randall S. Hanson
Professor, Social Sciences and Education
David H. Winton Endowed Chair
(603) 526-3657 | rahanson@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 1996. B.A. from Washington University, St. Louis; M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. Areas of teaching include modern Mexico, U.S. history, America in the 1960s, and revolutions and revolutionaries.
Professor Hanson has presented a number of conference papers on such topics as the Catholic church in modern Mexico, the Harry S. Truman presidency and Latin American women's studies. | faculty profile
Kraig Larkin
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences & Education
(603) 526-3640 | kraig.larkin@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 2011.
Olivia S.J. Smith
Associate Professor, Humanities
(603) 526-3640 | osmith@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 1993. B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Boston; M.A. from Rutgers University; Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, England. Author of The Politics of Language 1791-1819, she is researching a book-length study on the literature of the African Diaspora and recently received a Rockefeller Foundation Award in the Humanities. Professor Storey teaches courses in Caribbean, African-American and British literature. She is particularly interested in the 18th century and in different forms of literary expression.
Several of her courses include oral literature and music. Her teaching is informed by advanced study in Great Britain, at the University of Birmingham, where she paid particular attention to literature as it functions in social and political life. She is currently researching African-American literary and oral traditions in the early history of the United States. | faculty profile
Ann Page Stecker
Professor, Humanities
David H. Winton Endowed Chair
(603) 526-3644 | astecker@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 1980. A.B. from Randolph-Macon Woman's College; M.A. from University of Virginia. Areas of teaching include environmental literature, autobiography, British literature, New England history and women's literature. Professor Stecker also teaches courses which support the foundation of the Women's Studies minor, an interdisciplinary minor which explores the social, intellectual and cultural construction of gender.
Professor Stecker is the coordinator of the Wesson Honors Program, which offers academic, cultural and social opportunities for the most highly motivated and capable of Colby-Sawyer's students who combine a solid work ethic and natural ability with intellectual curiosity.
A historian and writer, she is a published author of a New Hampshire history as well as a 19th-century women's history, and is the author of Our Voices, Our Town: The History of New London, New Hampshire, from 1950 to 2000. | faculty profile
